My friend is a psychiatrist and one day in the course of our conversation he admitted that even with all of his training he still suffers from dementophobia, imagine that...a shrink afraid of becoming insane.



diphthong

If I tell you that I am going to boil a toy because it's filthy and needs sterilized before I return it to my boy I will have made a diphthong type of statement.


Hey what is this Reader's Digest increase your word power??? This is turning into a real education players!!


ooppss!!! I was just reminded gently that I had forgotten to leave a word.


fermata ( there ya go)

The fermata is a musical symbol which indicates a sustained note, but in the Baroque period Bach used it to indicate the end of a phrase.



servitude

In order to get all those cheap products from Wal-Mart, many small kids will be put into servitude in Taiwan and China.




artesian

The best water I've ever had was from a artesian spring in the high Sierras.



reticulation

i don't have a lot of ornaments and therefore I don't care about reticulation and their perimeter!! Or do I care about what other examples there are.

Iodine this everyday word game is ruined by new members who think it is the place to make like the Bigger the word so it enhances their Status/Image. I have received so many PM's about them, and tried to ignore them..most from other forums who know me from those. I have been a member in this section for a long time and don't think it is prestigious to talk Big....

So I have had fun with other older members from the beginning simply posting a word, not taking something from a dictionary that is a word not used in normal converstation.....if that is their intention; then I really believe they should start their own....game and play with themselves
We are common American people whose children once enjoyed the game until now!!!

CRAP

BTW Iodine, thankyou for speaking up as you are a Great Gamer as is No one and we all have been around for a Long Time!!!

Cheers!!!

And BTW, this was not meant as a nefarious comment. it was meant in all sincerity to be an observation picked up by another "gamer" of sometime and also a reflection of PM's that I have been receiving.
After all we are here for light hearted fun!!! And that includes my "teens and tweens " who I try to keep interested in Forums where Quality help is available... and for a family that is important as we do not encourage our children to "chat" which they don't/

If we do not strive to increase our vocabulary and accept the lessor speaking skills as the social norm then our language will turn from a very diversified tool to crap.



Georgia, it's too bad that you feel the way that you do, there are those of us that enjoy learning new things and those of us that don't need a dictionary to choose these words or to look them up in a dictionary to understand most of them. I admit that there have been a couple that have had me running for a dictionary, but I have enjoyed being able to add another word to my vocabulary.



aural

Some people's ears are aurally sensitive.

I made the comments b/c our "teens and tweens" are active in these games which is what the better half and I prefer rather than have them off "chatting".
When the game turns into using a dictionary their interest wanes especially when many of these words will not likely be used by them today or in the very near future.
Use of the computer by them is limited to their assignments and this site, thus I mentioned it.
Our family have been around this site for sometime.
Best Regards.

Ladies and gentlemen I have nothing to add to any of the above conversations. Believe it or not I'm keeping my big mouth shut for a change.
Now how about a word children??? and let's get on with the games.

Somedays you get the candy and other days you just get the crap.



blabber------------easy folks, that's my middle name..

Weird how some people can just blabber on for hours at end and there jaw not hurt.




Hmmm simple words now, how abouttttttttttt supercalifragilisticaspialidocious. Ok, ok seriously now the word isssss:

Bombard.

Today I have felt like my shield was down and I was bombarded with pure stress.





nonsense

Let all that nonsense go Mrs. Iodine your in the company of a beloved friend. That song "you got a friend in me" just popped into my head.

Procrastinate.

If I didn't sit around and procrastinate my house would be alot cleaner right now. (not true)








mechanical

If I knew more about robotics, I would create a mechanical maid to help you with the housework.




Eclipse

Anyone know when the next solar eclipse is going to happen?

Replicate.

Perfect word eclipse, there is supposed to be a lunar eclipse at 5:52 am DST tomorrow 08-28-07.





lunatic

I had to look it up to see if there really is a lunar eclipse tomorrow, because you know you can't always believe what a lunatic says.

Mandate.

You just had to give the word mandate didn't you, silly thing.




disjointed

Alot of times my thoughts are disjointed.

Quidnunc.

A person who gossips alot is a quidnunc.






respond

Hmmm, how should I respond to that?



Oops I forgot, simple words, simpleeee wordssssss.

It.

I suspect that while President Bill Clinton was arguing the meaning of the word is Hilary was considering making Bill an it.



pretentious

Being pretentious can be damaging to your health.

See.

See spot run.



can

I can do that too


romp

What fun it is to romp in the rain.



Temerity

The temerity Juan Pablo Montoya showed on the race track did not endear him to his fellow racers.


Flibbertigibbet

A woman that was flighty or air headed used to be called a flibbertigibbet now they just call them blondes!!








longevity

*giggles*




I am hoping the PS3 has a greater longevity than my PS2 that began it's "disc read error" messages too soon in it's career and wound up in the toilet. Don't ask. ;)



passion

As an adult I still find that there are times that I can't determine the difference between passion and infatuation.



disambiguation

Are you sure that's a word dc3, I know ambiguous is but this I'm not so sure about, I may have to check your dictionary you fiend. Now if ambiguous means something that has more than one meaning then it would follow that disambiguation would be the removal of the double meaning of a word or sentence. What ya think? close?



egotistical

Mike was feeling pretty egotistical over the release of his new book "Bass Crazy" until he found out that friends that had tried to google it found that there were two books with the same title, one was about Mike's passion for playing the double bass and the other was about fishing for bass, clearly google had a disambiguation problem.




dreck

Okay, okay I give up! I have no idea what "dreck" means and I'm too lazy to look it up in the dictionary tonight you fiend!!!




didymous

I know you'll get this one easily enough but I just couldn't resist throwing it out there at you!!!

You did what to you mouse???


The rows of didymous columns of the parthenon adds to the impression of depth to its entrance.



titmouse



Dreck is slang for trash...and other refuse.

In old German I believe..

Yes it is from the old German word, but with the modern connotation.




paradigm

Paradigm is a word not in my vocab and not used in my grade 5 class at school.
(btw i am one of the younger ones in the family that sometimes play here)

song

Adding a new word to your vocabulary is easier than learning a new song.



concertina

Learning a new song is not difficult at all, listen to an ipod and there you go, as for a concertina I don't listen to that kind of music I leave that for those type of music lovers.

genuine

A concertina is an essential instrument in genuine Irish folk music, the ability to produce chords was a real innovation.



squeeze-box

My grandma had a " squeeze-box " that she played along with a harmonica on a stand, every Christmas she would play Irish Washer Woman.

valuable

Anything that expands your knowledge must be considered valuable, especially if you have to work for it.



bit

Our family dog likes any tid-bit of food off the table.

consider

I think that I need to really consider whether or not to continue jumping into this frying pan or to get out before I fall into the fire!



demoralize

It would demoralize me to find out that my pin pal is really a fifth grader while I'm only in the second grade.



censure

I would hate to have to censure both of you children for kicking up such a fuss.



materialist

I have been accused of being a materialist, it ain't so, I just want all the toys a guy is entitled to.



contortionist

I gave up being a contortionist when I found that I had begun scratching behind my ear with my foot!!




screwball

Curveball, slider, screwball, it just doesn't matter, I can be struck out with any one of them.



ravenous

Some people don't necessarily have a ravenous appetite and yet they seem to gain weight!